MYOB and Microsoft Sign Five-Year AI Agent Partnership: Agent 365 Governance for 3.28M Australian and New Zealand SMBs

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MYOB and Microsoft announced a five-year strategic partnership on April 8 to co-build AI-powered business tools for Australia and New Zealand's 3.28 million SMBs. The stack uses Microsoft Foundry for customer-facing agentic AI, Copilot Studio for employee-built agents, and Agent 365 for governance. Initial 'AI teammates' will forecast cash flow, guide compliance readiness, and triage support queues, with Microsoft providing dedicated engineering support to accelerate feature drops from months to weeks.